Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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.

Truthsprings from argument amongst friends.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

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

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.