Accomplishmentof purpose is better than making a profit.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

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

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.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.