Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Onlywhen all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.