Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

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.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.