The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

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.