Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

When weblame, we give away our power.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.