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.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

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

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

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

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.