Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.