Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

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

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

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.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.