Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

It's good to shut up sometimes.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

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.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.