The comforter's head never aches.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

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.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.