Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

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.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.