The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

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.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.