Our distrust is very expensive.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

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

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

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.