A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.