Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

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