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 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.

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

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.