Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

Wenever have the time to do it right but always have time to do it over.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

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.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.