Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

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.