I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it