Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

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.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

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

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.