The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

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

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

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Luck never mad a mad man wise