One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.