Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

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.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

All thingsat first appear difficult.