To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

Personal appearance is looking the best you can for the money.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.