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

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

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

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

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

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.