Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

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.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

Everything has it's beauty, but not every one sees it.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.