A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

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.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

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

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

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

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.