Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

The more faithfully you listen to the voice withhin you, the batter you will hear what is sounding outside.And only he who listens can speak.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

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

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.