If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

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.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.