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

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

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

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.