We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.