Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.