Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.