You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

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

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

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

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.