Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

A room without books is a body without soul

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

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

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

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.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.