Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

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.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.