One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.