Thehardest step is over the threshold.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Faith is continuation of reason.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Renown and repose do not go together.