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

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

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

Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Timinghas a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears