Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

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

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.