I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

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.

A room without books is a body without soul

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Renown and repose do not go together.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself