Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

You made your bed, now lie in it.