If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

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.

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.