You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

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