Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

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

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

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

Sweet is pleasure after pain

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.