Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

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

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

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.