If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

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