Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles
Perhaps it should only be added that the Gorean master, though often strict, is seldom cruel. The girl knows, if she pleases him, her lot will be an easy one.
Do not ask the stones or the trees how to live, they can not tell you ; they do not have tongues; do not ask the wise man how to live for, if he knows , he will know he cannot tell you; if you would learn how to live , do not ask the question; its answer is not in the question but in the answer, which is not in words; do not ask how to live, but, instead, proceed to do so.
It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.
The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her.
Life is too short and too precious to waste it living out someone else’s values. We must find our own.
It is generally my thesis then to insist on the importance of imagination in sex, to insist that the practice of sex, as performed among human beings, be accorded the same deliberate and playful application of fancy, imagination and intelligence as any other significant human activity.
A true friend is one soul divided into two people.
Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.
Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving.
Accept disgrace willingly. . . Accept being unimportant. . . Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.