I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

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.

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.