Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Power comes from sincere service

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

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.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

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.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.