The great despisers are the greater reverers.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.