God made time, but man made haste.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Thecorrect strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreignclients is a Japanese strategy:ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefullyfeel for pressure points.If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Sugges

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.