The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

You've gotto know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, knowwhen to run.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

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.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.