Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Patience is the art of hoping.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

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 possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.