You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

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

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

Thenumber one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintaintheir self-esteem.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.