The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

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

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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

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.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.