The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

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.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

The ultimate measured a man is not where he stands in marents of comfort, but whre he stands at times of challenge & contraversy.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

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

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.