Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

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.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.