Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

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 corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

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 can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.