What is well done is done soon enough.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

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