.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

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.

Compromise.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.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.