The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

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

If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.