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

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.