Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

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.

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

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

A faithful friend is medicine of Life.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.