Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Nostrength within, no respect without.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Power comes from sincere service

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.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

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

Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.