Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

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