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

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

No strength within, no respect without.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

A room without books is a body without soul

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.