He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

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.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.