If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

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

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

The greatest prayer is patience.