The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

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.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

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.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Power comes from sincere service

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges