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

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

What is well done is done soon enough.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.