A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

The property of power is to protect.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

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.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.