Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

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

The first duty of love is to listen.

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.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

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

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.