Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

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

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

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

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.

Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.