Patience is the art of hoping.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.