If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.