No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

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 real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

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

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.