Melancholy is the joy of being said.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

Thereare two sides to every question.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

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.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.