If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

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

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

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.