If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

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

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Power comes from sincere service