It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

What is well done is done soon enough.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.