If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

Neversay more than is necessary.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

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.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.