I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

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

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.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

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

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.