Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

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

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.