I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

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.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.