The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

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

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

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 like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

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

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.