Our distrust is very expensive.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

The property of power is to protect.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.