If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

They mayforget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.