Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Nevercut what you can untie.

You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there to wake up the soul.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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