Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

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