Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

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

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

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

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.