It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.