If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

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.