One cannot be precise and still be pure.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

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

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history