Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

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.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

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