A good conscience is the best divinity.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Stability is not immobility

The property of power is to protect.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

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

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

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