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

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

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

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They