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

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

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

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

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

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.