Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

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

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

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