Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

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.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

The comforter's head never aches.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.