One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

Stability is not immobility

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol