Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to