Much learning does not teach understanding.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

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.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.