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

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

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.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.