Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.