Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

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

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

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

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

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

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.