If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

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.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.