Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

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.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

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

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.