All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

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

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.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.