Outside noisy, inside empty.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

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

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

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