Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

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

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

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.