Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to