Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

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

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

It's good to shut up sometimes.