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

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

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.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.