I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

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

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

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.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.