If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

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.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.