Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

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

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

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