Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

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

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Our distrust is very expensive.