If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

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.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.