If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

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.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.