Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

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.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.