The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

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

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.