Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

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

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

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

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.