If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.