I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.