Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

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.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.