Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

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

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

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

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.