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

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

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