Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

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 average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.