Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings