The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.