Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Wenever have the time to do it right but always have time to do it over.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

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