Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

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

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

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

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.