Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there to wake up the soul.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Youdon't have to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth.Success has made failures of many men.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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.