My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

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

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.