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

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

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.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.