Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.