Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.