Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

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.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

No onewould talk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.