Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.

When weblame, we give away our power.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

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.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.