All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

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.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.