The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.