Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to