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

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

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

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

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

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

God made time, but man made haste.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.