Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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 can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

God has created the world in play.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

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

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.