It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

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

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.