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.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

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