You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.