Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

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.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

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.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.