As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Ittakes time to save time.

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

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