Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

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

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

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

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

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

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

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.