Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

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

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.