Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.