Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

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

Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

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.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.