Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

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.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.