you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

People say law but they mean wealth.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

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

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.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.