Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

The property of power is to protect.

The more faithfully you listen to the voice withhin you, the batter you will hear what is sounding outside.And only he who listens can speak.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

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

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

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