The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

The comforter's head never aches.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.