A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

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

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.