I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

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.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

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

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.