The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

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.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.