Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

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

The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.