The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

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

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

Ability is poor men's wealth

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.