A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

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

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

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.