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

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

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.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes