Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

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

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

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