Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

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…

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.