Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

EDUCATION BEGINS WITH LIFE.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

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.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

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

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.