Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

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

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

As long as there is life there is danger.

Onlywhen all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.