At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

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

People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.