Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Fools rush in where fools have been before.