The principle of equal protection is a positive concept implying equality of treatment in equal circumstances.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

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

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

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.