Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

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.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

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

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.