To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Well done is better than well said.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.