Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

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

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.