The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

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.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.