Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

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.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

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

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Ittakes time to save time.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.