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

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.