Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.