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

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

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.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.