Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

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.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.