It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.