I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.