No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

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

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

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.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.