Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

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

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

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.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.