The property of power is to protect.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

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.

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.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

As long as there is life there is danger.