Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness,and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

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.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.