I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

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

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.