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

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

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

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.