There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

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

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

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

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

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

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.