Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

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.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character