Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

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

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.