Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

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

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.