“I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.”

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.