At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Every advantage has its tax

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

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

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

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.