When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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