All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

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.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.