An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

To beprepared is half the victory.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

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.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.