The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

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.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.