Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant