Outside noisy, inside empty.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

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.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.