Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Evil communication corrupt good manners.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

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.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.