The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

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

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.