The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

The major cause of traffic accidents is that men put into their cars as much ego as petrol.

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

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.