Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

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.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

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

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

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.