Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.
The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows – a wall against the wind.
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.
Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.
Education is no substitute for intelligence.
It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.
You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They’ve discovered they’re a people. They’re awakening.
He who controls the spice controls the universe.
Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You’ll find me there, staring out at you!
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work and their civilization collapses.
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
To determine if you’re human. Be silent.
Caution is the path to mediocrity.
The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.