To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

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

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou