A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

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.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.