The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

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

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.