If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

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.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.