The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Genius is a long impatience.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Ittakes time to save time.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

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.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.