The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Youdon't have to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth.Success has made failures of many men.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.