Before following a leader, it's wise to see if he's headed in the right direction.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Ittakes time to save time.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

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.

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

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

A bad workman never gets a good tool.