I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

To beprepared is half the victory.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Thereare two sides to every question.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.