The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

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.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.