A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.