I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.