It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

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

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Example is better than following it.

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

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

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.