As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

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.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

God made time, but man made haste.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

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

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.