Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.