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.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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

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

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.