Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

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

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 corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.