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

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Beautifullight is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is oftenthe strongest and the best.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

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