The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

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.

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

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

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.