If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

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

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.