It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

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

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.