There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.