To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

A good conscience is the best divinity.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

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

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

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

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

... 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