Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

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

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

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.