Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

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

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

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.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

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

The ultimate measured a man is not where he stands in marents of comfort, but whre he stands at times of challenge & contraversy.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.