Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

A Leader is a dealer in hope.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They