Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

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

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.