To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

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.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

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

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.