The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Toeffectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the waywe perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to ourcommunication with others.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.