Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
No evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from.
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.