To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

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.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

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

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.