When weblame, we give away our power.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

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

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.