Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

The principle of equal protection is a positive concept implying equality of treatment in equal circumstances.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

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.