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

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.