All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

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

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

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.