Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.