Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Neversay more than is necessary.

The comforter's head never aches.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

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

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.