Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

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 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.