The property of power is to protect.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.