If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

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.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.