If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical