Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

Talkback to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

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.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.