Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.