To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Our errors are steps on the way.

Remember when feminisit movements were something men gathered on street corners to admire as the girls strolled by

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Patience is the art of hoping.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

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.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.