Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

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

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

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.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.