Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

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.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.