Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

People say law but they mean wealth.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

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.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.