If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

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

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.