Buyingis cheaper than asking.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

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.

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