"It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable."

"The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place."

"One who says unpleasant things about others, will himself quickly become a target of their scandal."

"Like democracy, civilization has to be willed and practice. Otherwise, society is a war of all against all, powered by individual cunning in the pursuit of wealth and power."

"Courage is one step ahead of fear."

"A wife and a promissory note are never lost (they will allways find you)"

"A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour."

"Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after."

"Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the other."

"To be possessed is an admirable reason for possessing."

"Speak no evil of an absent friend. (Non male loquare absenti amico)"

"When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have."