A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

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.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

The first duty of love is to listen.

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