Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

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.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.