You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.