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

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

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

Power comes from sincere service

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

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

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!