No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

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

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.