A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

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

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

The property of power is to protect.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.