It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.