Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves