It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

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.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

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

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

There is no knowledge that is not power.