Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.