Themost prepared are the most dedicated.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

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

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.