Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

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

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

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.