The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.