Every advantage has its tax

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

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

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

God made time, but man made haste.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.