A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

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

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

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

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.