Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

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 hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

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

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable