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

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

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

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.