Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

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

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.