Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

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.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

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.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"