If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

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.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.