Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Life only demands from you the strength you posses

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.