Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

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.