Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

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.

Evil communication corrupt good manners.

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

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

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

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.