Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

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.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.