Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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

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.

Thereare two sides to every question.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

God made time, but man made haste.

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.