Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

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

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.