Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

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