The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

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

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Ifanyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.

If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

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.