Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

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

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it