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

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

Voilence is a Just when kindness is vain

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.