Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

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

Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.