There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Communicationis a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. Ifyou're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of everypart of your life.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

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.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.