Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

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.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country