Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

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

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

Patience is the art of hoping.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.