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.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

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.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.