The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

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

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.