We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

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.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.