The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

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

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

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.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.