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

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

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

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable