Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

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.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

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

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.