You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

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.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.