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

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

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

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.