All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Power comes from sincere service

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.