Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

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

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

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

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Ittakes time to save time.

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

A half truth is a whole lie.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.