One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

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

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen