Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

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