Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

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.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.