A Leader is a dealer in hope.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

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.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

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.

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

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.