Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

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.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.