As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.