Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

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

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

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.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.