Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond 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 man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.