Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

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

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 willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them