Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable