Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.