To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Power comes from sincere service

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to