If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Power comes from sincere service

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

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.