Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

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.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.