Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.