Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

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.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

The property of power is to protect.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.