Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Genius is a long impatience.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

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

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

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.