Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Only the educated are free.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.