Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

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.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.