Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

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.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.