Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

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

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

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.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

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

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.