Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

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.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

No onewould talk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.