Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

When u were born, u were crying and everyone round u was smiling.. Live ur life so that when u die, u're the one who is smiling and everyone round u is crying..

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

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.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.