If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

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

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall 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.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.