Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.