Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

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.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.