Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

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.