Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it