Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

The property of power is to protect.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.