Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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

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

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

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

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.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.