Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

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

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.