You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination