Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

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

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.