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

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

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

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.