Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.