To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

In Prayer it is better to have a Heart without Words than words without a Heart.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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.

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.