It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

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 nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

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

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

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

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.