A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Skill inthe art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplishnothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

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.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

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

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.