The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

If you can't love visible people, then how can u love invisible God. - Mother teresa

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

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.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.