Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

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.

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

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.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.