Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

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.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

The property of power is to protect.

To startblindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, andwill lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.