Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous