We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

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

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

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.