The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

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

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

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.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.