We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

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.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

Compromise,n. 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.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.