True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

... 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

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.