Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

God has created the world in play.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.