Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Nevercut what you can untie.

Tolerance that accepts merits as the most natural thing in World is the highest applause.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.