A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

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

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.