Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

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

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

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.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.