A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

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

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

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

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.