Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

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.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

When u were born, u were crying and everyone round u was smiling.. Live ur life so that when u die, u're the one who is smiling and everyone round u is crying..

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

The art of writing is the art of restraint.