Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

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

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

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.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.