It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

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

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned