Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Only the educated are free.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

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.

The greatest prayer is patience.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.