You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.