To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.