Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

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

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

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.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.