Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

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

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

A room without books is a body without soul

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

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.