You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

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.

In Prayer it is better to have a Heart without Words than words without a Heart.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

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.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.