Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.