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

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.