The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

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

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.