The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

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

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

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.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.