Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

God made time, but man made haste.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

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

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

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