Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

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.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .