Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

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

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

Stability is not immobility

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

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

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

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