Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

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.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived