Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

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.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer