Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

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.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

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

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.