Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.

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.

A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.