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

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to