If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

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

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

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.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.