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

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

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

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

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.