Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

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

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

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

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 surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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