The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

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

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.