The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

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.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

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

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

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.