We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.