Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

As a final incentive before giving up a

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

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.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.