The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

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

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.