Power tires only those who do not have it.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

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

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.