Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

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

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.