Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

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.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

A Leader is a dealer in hope.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

Power comes from sincere service

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.