Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

Truthsprings from argument amongst friends.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

Our errors are steps on the way.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Ability is poor men's wealth