Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

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

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.