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

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

EDUCATION BEGINS WITH LIFE.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.