Nothing is a permanent except change.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

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

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

Money is what things run into and people run out of