A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

When weblame, we give away our power.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

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.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.