I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Renown and repose do not go together.

Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

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.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.