Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Our distrust is very expensive.

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.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.