Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.