Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

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

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

Power comes from sincere service

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

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

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.