One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.
Silence is often the best thing to say.
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.
If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.
Beaurocracy destroys initiative.
A human being can stand any amount of pain.
Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.
Enemies strengthn you. Allies weaken you.
It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.
To the soul’s desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned.
If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.
Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.
We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power.
A voice hissed: “He sheds tears!” It was taken around the ring “Usal gives moisture to the dead!” He felt fingers touch his damp cheek, heard the awed whispers.
Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don’t let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.
Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.
You don’t write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you’re really doing it, that’s all you’re doing: writing.
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.
Madness in method, that’s genius.