Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Renown and repose do not go together.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.