Liberation is not deliverance.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.