All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

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.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.