The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

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.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

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