It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

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.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

You've gotto know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, knowwhen to run.