If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

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

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.