Neverdoubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change theworld. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

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.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.