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.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.