No strength within, no respect without.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

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.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.