Something cannot emerge from nothing.

Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it's almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman, the situation is reversed. ... These things are so ancient within us that they're ground into each separate cell of our bodies... It's as easy to be overwhelmed by giving as by taking.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

The past is no farther away than your pillow.