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

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

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.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

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