Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

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