The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

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.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.