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

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.