One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

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

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.