Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.