Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

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.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.