Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Ability is poor men's wealth

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.