Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

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

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.