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.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

The first duty of love is to listen.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it