If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

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

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.