A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

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.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

When weblame, we give away our power.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.