I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

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 barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.