Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

The comforter's head never aches.

Thenumber one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintaintheir self-esteem.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

The greatest prayer is patience.

No strength within, no respect without.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech