Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges