Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

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

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.