The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

Personal appearance is looking the best you can for the money.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.