Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.