All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

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.

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.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.