Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

When a man meets his mates society begins.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

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.