The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

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.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.