We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.