Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.