A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

To everyanswer you can find a new question.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.