To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

Talkback to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

The comforter's head never aches.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

You've gotto know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, knowwhen to run.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

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.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"