The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

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

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

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

God made time, but man made haste.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

Our distrust is very expensive.