A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

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

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

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

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.