The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

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.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

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

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.