It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

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

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.