Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

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

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

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.

The principle of equal protection is a positive concept implying equality of treatment in equal circumstances.

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.