Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

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

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.