Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

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

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.