Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Remember when feminisit movements were something men gathered on street corners to admire as the girls strolled by

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

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

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.