True Refinement Seeks Simplicity.

There Is A Powerful Craving In Most Of Us To See Ourselves As Instruments In The Hands Of Others And Thus Free Ourselves From The Responsibility For Acts Which Are Prompted By Our Own Questionable Inclinations And Impulses. Both The Strong And The Weak Grasp At This Alibi. The Latter Hide Their Malevolence Under The Virtue Of Obedience: They Acted Dishonorably Because They Had To Obey Orders. The Strong, Too, Claim Absolution By Proclaiming Themselves The Chosen Instrument Of A Higher Power -- God, History, Fate, Nation, Or Humanity.

Everyone Wants To Learn How To Win, But No One Wants To Learn How To Accept Defeat.

An Intelligent Mind Is An Inquiring Mind. It Is Not Satisfied With Explanation, With Conclusions. Nor Is It A Mind That Believes, Because Belief Is Again Another Form Of Conclusion.

One Should Be In Harmony With, Not In Opposition To, The Strength And Force Of The Opposition. This Means That One Should Do Nothing That Is Not Natural Or Spontaneous; The Important Thing Is Not To Strain In Any Way.

Concentration Is The Root Of All The Higher Abilities In Man.