A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

As long as there is life there is danger.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it