We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

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

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.