True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

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

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.