Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

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.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

Example is better than following it.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.