You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

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,

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

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.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.