All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

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

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

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.