Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.