You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

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

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

God has created the world in play.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.