The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

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.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.