Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

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

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

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.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

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