It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.