Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.