Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.