Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

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.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.