Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!