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

Silenceis the mother of truth.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

A half truth is a whole lie.

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

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

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 means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

The property of power is to protect.