You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

The first duty of love is to listen.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

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.

The principle of equal protection is a positive concept implying equality of treatment in equal circumstances.