The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

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

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.