Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

No practice exists in isolation.