The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

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