Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

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

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.