If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

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.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

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

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.