Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

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.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.