Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

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.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

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

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.