The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.