Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.