I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges