Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

The greatest prayer is patience.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

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

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

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.