Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

... 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

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.