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

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

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.