One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

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.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.