The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

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

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen