Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

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.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Our distrust is very expensive.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.