If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

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

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.