The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

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.