What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

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.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.