Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".