When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

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.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.