If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

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

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.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned