Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

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.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

They mayforget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

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.