Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

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.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.