One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

Thereare two sides to every question.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.