Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

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.

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

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

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Life only demands from you the strength you posses

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

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.

Necessity truns lion into fox.