Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

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

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.