The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

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

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.