Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

A language is like living skin itself.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.