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

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Ittakes time to save time.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

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

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.