Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

As long as there is life there is danger.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

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