It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

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

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.