I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

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.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.