Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Only the educated are free.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

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