Habit: the shackles of the free

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

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

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

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

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

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