Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Habit: the shackles of the free

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Before following a leader, it's wise to see if he's headed in the right direction.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

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.

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

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

Opportunists take now for an answer.