WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.