Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

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

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

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