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

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.

Nevercut what you can untie.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

When you are feeling stressed and about to breakdown, just remember: STRESSED is just DESSERTS spelled backwards.. it's a piece of cake!

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.