When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

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.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.