All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

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 greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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