Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Evil communication corrupt good manners.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

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.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.