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

Remember when feminisit movements were something men gathered on street corners to admire as the girls strolled by

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

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.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.