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

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

Malice drinketh its own poison.