No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

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.