If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.