It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

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

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Neverdoubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change theworld. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

Compromise.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.