No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

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.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

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