Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

A Leader is a dealer in hope.

Takecare, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you willforever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make adifference, if you choose to do so.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

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.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.