The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

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

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

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

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

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

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.