The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

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.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

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

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

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