It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.