Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

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

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.