An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.