To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

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

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Don't be took quick to belive anything you read.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.