You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

To be preparedis half the victory.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

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