Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

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.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.