Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

When you are feeling stressed and about to breakdown, just remember: STRESSED is just DESSERTS spelled backwards.. it's a piece of cake!

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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

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.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

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 nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.